24Emergency preparedness

24 Emergency preparedness

(1) The safety case for a facility must:

(a) describe a response plan designed to address possible emergencies, the risk of which has been identified in the formal safety assessment for the facility; and

(b) provide for the implementation of that plan.

(2) The plan must:

(a) specify all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the facility is safe and without risk to the health of persons likely to be on the facility at the time of the emergency; and

(b) specify the performance standards that it applies.

(3) The Safety Case must make adequate provision for escape drill exercises and fire drill exercises by persons on the facility.

(4) In particular, those exercises must ensure that those persons will be trained to function in the event of emergency with an adequate degree of knowledge, preparedness and confidence concerning the relevant emergency procedures.

(5) The Safety Case must provide for the operator of the facility to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that escape drill exercises and fire drill exercises are held in accordance with the Safety Case relating to the facility.

(6) The Safety Case in respect of a mobile facility must also specify systems that are adequate to:

(a) shut down or disconnect, in the event of emergency, all operations on the facility that could adversely affect the safety of the facility; and

(b) give appropriate audible and visible warnings of the shutting down or disconnecting of those operations.